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GitHub’s Atom Editor 1.0 is out now. Install it on Ubuntu 15.04

Atom is GitHub’s developed full featured, cross platform, hackable text editor. Its known to be highly customizable text editor, you can customize it to achieve anything that a text editor can do. Its high productive text editor, easy to use and graphically eye candy. Recently Atom Editor reached 1.0 version. That’s topic of our article today, its prominent features and how to install it on Ubuntu distro.

Features

Here are some of the noteworthy/prominent features of this text editor that makes you fall in love with this little awesome piece of software.

Atom offers a nice and easy to use graphical setting manager where you can modify common settings like theme, font size, color highlighting schemes etc.

Atom looks promising from developer’s point of view, You can add support for Chrome development Tools and can customize this text editor to easily develop your themes and packages.

Atom is tightly integrated with Git, so if you are using GIT to host code, you should get lot of help from this text editor regarding your recent changes to code.

As already mentioned in the introduction paragraph, Atom is highly customizable, you can add packages to extend its functionality, hundreds of packages are available online which can add more feathers to working and look of this editor.

The built-in support for programming languages and syntax highlightening is another impressive feature for developers.

Installing Atom Editor 1.0 on ubuntu

The installer package for ubuntu is around 70 MB, as soon as the installer file has been downloaded, launch your terminal and go to the download location, usually /home/username/Downloads [replace username with your actual username]

cd /home/linuxpitstop/Downloads

Here run following command to install the new Atom release.

sudo dpkg -i atom-amd64.deb

That’s all, your Atom editor is installed now. Easy? Isn’t it, run following command on the terminal to launch it.

atom

Now you can also launch it from Applications >> Atom options. Enjoy

Conclusion

The amount of features and easy of use Atom offers is impressive, this editor surely going to play an important role in the world of text editors and already got attention and love of millions of users.